The question at hand is not whether Red Hat's version of Linux is superior to that of its competitors. The marketplace will make that determination and we can keep score via Red Hat's financial performance each quarter.

The advantage for Google is visibility. "They've gotten some real estate on the browser," Gary Price, editor of Search Engine Watch said. "By being one of the first ones to do that [with the IE toolbar] they were there and it's hard for people to take a look at anyone else. It reinforces the brand every time you open the browser."

The open source database db.* (pronounced D B star) has survived proprietary origins and the dot-com bust to find new life as an open source product.

Release 0.15 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4336 images submitted by over 430 artists from around the world.

Windows will become the de facto standard operating system for EDA applications, in the same way as the PC has superseded dedicated Unix boxes, and EDA companies currently migrating their software to Linux are running up a blind alley.

Apache officials hope to iron out licensing issues with Microsoft and IBM pertaining to the WS-Security specification, so that Apache can add the technology to its open source Axis SOAP stack.

The Linux kernel, since version 2.0, has included the capabilities to act as a firewall. In those days, the kernel module was called ipfwadm and was very simple.

If you listen to the debate between Microsoft advocates and open source zealots, you might easily conclude that it's an all-or-nothing proposition. For them, it's one or the other.

Custom-compiling Subversion and Apache is the best way of controlling what you want (and don't want) from your repository.

Norwegian Web browser company Opera released a new test version of its software Thursday that supports the BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology, one of the most popular tools in the file-swapping world.

Employment specialist and open source advocate Robert MacEwan changed his career plans after doing some "temporary" work at the Beaufort County Developmental Center (BCDC) in Washington, N.C.

DotProject is a robust Web-based project management framework written in PHP that allows users to schedule, plan, and staff projects.

If you are planning to build an online knowledge base, XML might be your best choice for a repository format, because of its ease of development, its platform independence, and the fact that it is in an open and human friendly format.

Fundable.org is a new service that allows people who need funds to connect with those who are willing to contribute.

Distrowatch reports - An updated development release of PCLinuxOS is now available: "PCLinuxOS Preview 9.1 is now posted up on the BitTorrent tracker. This is an update for the live CD with fixes for various issues found after the release of preview 9. A new 2.6.11 kernel was added, X.Org updated, and the PCLOS Control Center got an update to fix some configuration utilities.

OSDir has a big selection of screenshots of the PCLinuxOS Preview 9.1 release.

Ironically, commercial Linux server software is now encumbered, and two multibillion-dollar companies are offering thoroughly validated alternatives that are free for do-it-yourselfers, are quite affordable for others, and enjoy broad community support in their free and commercial forms.

UNDP-APDIP's International Open Source Network has produced a guide on Free/Open Source Software Localization.

Download the guide: FOSS Guide to Localization (pdf format - 10.8MB)
http://www.iosn.net/l10n/l10n-howto-toolkit/guide.pdf

I apologize for the lateness of this report. I pledged to make (at least) monthly reports to the Project membership as leader, and though I made two in my first month in office (on `24 April`_ and `8 May`_), it has been nearly two months since the last one.

Paris, France, Zinside, a fast growing Provider of Open Source Solutions announced the launch of their new website at www.zinside.com. Zinside.com is a comprehensive portfolio of pre-priced, configured, customized, and integrated Open Source solutions and deployment services. Zinside is the first company to sell desktops pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux.

No one open source license is ideal in every circumstance. Different licenses serve different ends.

As open source licensing models, both the Berkeley Software Distribution license and the General Public License have advantages and disadvantages.

AUSTIN, TX and MIDRAND, SOUTH AFRICA – Win4Lin, a leading supplier of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions, announced today a key expansion of its worldwide sales and marketing presence with the appointment of Workgroup, based in Midrand, South Africa, as a new distributor for their Win4Lin family of Windows-on-Linux virtualization products. Workgroup will distribute the full family of Win4Lin products in South and Southern Africa.

While Sun Microsystems Inc has been busy getting its commercialized Solaris 10 operating system out the door while at the same time taking it open source through the OpenSolaris project, some key features that Sun was touting last year for the Solaris 10 platform are still missing in action.

This Novell White Paper articulates the business value of migrating from Windows NT Server to Linux. We do this by:

This new Live Distro has an apt name -- it's quick, nimble, and full of interesting tricks, including the ability to run off a CD-RW disk.

Although Linux has made dramatic inroads as a kinder, simpler alternative to enterprise UNIX, nobody has managed to give Microsoft a run for its money in the small business market.

Fujitsu will begin offering Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software and support services for Fujitsu PrimeQuest and Primergy servers worldwide later this year, it said Friday.

Popular Linux distributor Debian has moved quickly to address concerns it was falling behind on security.

Sources close to Mandriva, Progeny and Turbolinux say the trio of companies will be announcing a new enterprise Linux distribution based on Debian Linux at the LinuxWorld event in San Francisco in August.

Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m.